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...their bellies and sucked air through tiny holes in a pipe. Some lay on their bellies and sucked air for 43 hours. Help eventually found them, and 88 in all, I think--88 who had been designated for celestial honors by the boys at the head of the shaft--emerged into daylight with their heads held high...
...writer. There, last week, in his picture-lined office, he made a remarkable confession: "I'm just beginning to grow up, to get maturity. In the last few years. everything I'd done up to 60 or so has seemed very childish." Reminded of a youthfully immature shaft at Chekhov ("I like my Ibsen straight"). Eliot grinned: "That doesn't make sense to me now." As for the once admired A.E. Housman. he now dismisses him as a youthful "phase" but still approvingly quotes the couplet Housman wrote in his sleep...
After repeated assurances that his mark on the ballot would neither give his enemies a hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...
...ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
...rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...